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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7534956, member: 99456"]This coin provides an excuse to revisit this excellent thread from [USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER].</p><p>Cyrene in north Africa, modern Libya:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1300904[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1300902[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Kyrenaica, Koinon</b>, circa 250-246 BC, Æ (22mm, 15.1g, 12h)</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Head of Zeus-Ammon right, wearing tainia</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Silphium plant [K-O], I-N, O-N</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Asolati 61Aa; SNG Copenhagen 1276–7; BMC 15</p><p><br /></p><p>The letters on this coin not easy to see in the photo:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1300903[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">"laserpitium claims our notice, a very remarkable plant, known to the Greeks by the name of "silphion" and originally a native of the province of Cyrenaica. The juice of this plant is called "laser," and it is greatly in vogue for medicinal as well as other purposes, being sold at the same rate as silver. For these many years past, however, it has not been found in Cyrenaica, as the farmers of the revenue who hold the lands there on lease, have a notion that it is more profitable to depasture flocks of sheep upon them. Within the memory of the present generation, a single stalk is all that has ever been found there, and that was sent as a curiosity to the Emperor Nero<b>"</b></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>-Pliny, <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D19%3Achapter%3D15" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D19%3Achapter%3D15" rel="nofollow">The Natural History 19.15</a></b></font></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>I can understand how one could become a [USER=116882]@Silphium Addict[/USER].<b></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>References:</b></p><ul> <li><font size="3"><a href="https://storiesfromthemuseumfloor.wordpress.com/2018/10/05/the-mystery-of-plinys-silphium/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://storiesfromthemuseumfloor.wordpress.com/2018/10/05/the-mystery-of-plinys-silphium/" rel="nofollow">The Mystery of Pliny’s Silphium</a></font></li> <li><font size="3">Parejko, K. (2003). <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/3095254" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/3095254" rel="nofollow">Pliny the Elder's Silphium: First Recorded Species Extinction</a>. <i>Conservation Biology,</i> <i>17</i>(3), 925-927.</font></li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7534956, member: 99456"]This coin provides an excuse to revisit this excellent thread from [USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER]. Cyrene in north Africa, modern Libya: [ATTACH=full]1300904[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1300902[/ATTACH] [B]Kyrenaica, Koinon[/B], circa 250-246 BC, Æ (22mm, 15.1g, 12h) [B]Obv:[/B] Head of Zeus-Ammon right, wearing tainia [B]Rev:[/B] Silphium plant [K-O], I-N, O-N [B]Ref: [/B]Asolati 61Aa; SNG Copenhagen 1276–7; BMC 15 The letters on this coin not easy to see in the photo: [ATTACH=full]1300903[/ATTACH] [SIZE=4] "laserpitium claims our notice, a very remarkable plant, known to the Greeks by the name of "silphion" and originally a native of the province of Cyrenaica. The juice of this plant is called "laser," and it is greatly in vogue for medicinal as well as other purposes, being sold at the same rate as silver. For these many years past, however, it has not been found in Cyrenaica, as the farmers of the revenue who hold the lands there on lease, have a notion that it is more profitable to depasture flocks of sheep upon them. Within the memory of the present generation, a single stalk is all that has ever been found there, and that was sent as a curiosity to the Emperor Nero[B]"[/B] [B]-Pliny, [URL='http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D19%3Achapter%3D15']The Natural History 19.15[/URL][/B][/SIZE] [B] [/B] I can understand how one could become a [USER=116882]@Silphium Addict[/USER].[B] References:[/B] [LIST] [*][SIZE=3][URL='https://storiesfromthemuseumfloor.wordpress.com/2018/10/05/the-mystery-of-plinys-silphium/']The Mystery of Pliny’s Silphium[/URL][/SIZE] [*][SIZE=3]Parejko, K. (2003). [URL='http://www.jstor.org/stable/3095254']Pliny the Elder's Silphium: First Recorded Species Extinction[/URL]. [I]Conservation Biology,[/I] [I]17[/I](3), 925-927.[/SIZE] [/LIST][/QUOTE]
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